Episode Transcript
Speaker 0 00:00:01 Good morning, Fort McMurray, wood, Buffalo, and the rest of the world. You're tuned into the Mac city morning show. And I'm your host Elliot Pierre. We're going to start the show off the same way we do every day with a little bit of gratitude. I want to say thank you to everybody at home watching. I know you could be doing a million other things with your time. So the fact that you're spending with us means the world to me on that note, Tanner hit them with you.
Speaker 1 00:00:26 Oh, she caught me, loves near listened to the next <inaudible>.
Speaker 0 00:00:35 All right. We got a fun one today. Tanner. I think you're probably the most excited about today's episode. I definitely am. All right. As per usual, I do not introduce our guests because they can do a better job at it than I, but, uh, this is Towner's buddy and, uh, Tanner hit him with the camera and my friend, please introduce yourself to the people at home.
Speaker 2 00:00:55 Hello. My name is Colton poacher and I've, uh, been living here for, well, I was born and raised for 21 years, I suppose. And, uh, yeah, dating yourself. Yeah. When you're that young. It doesn't matter, I guess so. Yeah. You don't mind throwing it out there? No, not at all.
Speaker 0 00:01:12 You're a Jack of all trades people can't see it, but you came in and you, uh, you blacked out our windows for us put tint on. Did that, so is that, what do you do for like your career?
Speaker 2 00:01:23 Well, right now I'm working at, uh, as an apprentice at a team-based glass and door and we're glaciers. So right now, you know, we're, we're installing like windows down at like save on food, fat burger and all that stuff like that. So it's pretty interesting. Cool. How do you get into that? Uh, well, a year ago, actually, my, uh, my stepdad sent them my resume and he, uh, used to work there probably 20 or so years ago. So, uh, I went in for the interview and they're like, Oh yeah, we'll probably call you back in a week or whatever. I was like, okay. You know, sounds good a year. It comes back. It goes by, you know, I'm working at a liquor store and then, uh, one day my stepdad gets a call from Tony who runs it. And uh, he's like, Hey, is your son still looking for a job? Like, we're definitely looking for him. And I'm like, hell yeah. I mean, it's definitely better than, you know, it's definitely good because, uh, I can work a and get a career out of it, you know, the trade to get into. Nice.
Speaker 0 00:02:23 Yeah. So how long have you been working there for now?
Speaker 2 00:02:25 Uh, since October. Wow. Yeah. Okay. That's good, man. As long as you're enjoying it. Oh yeah. I love it. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:02:31 And I have to assume that it's paying substantially better than the liquor store. Yeah, definitely. Although just a liquor store. I have always wanted to actually work at a liquor store. Yeah. It just seems like a chill job.
Speaker 2 00:02:43 It really is. Honestly,
Speaker 0 00:02:47 The customers that are coming in more often than not a good time.
Speaker 2 00:02:50 Oh yeah. Honestly, most of them are so nice, but obviously you get one or two here that kind of yeah. Where you uptown
Speaker 0 00:03:00 Or downtown liquor store.
Speaker 2 00:03:01 I actually worked at two liquor stores, so I worked at a liquor Depot up in Timberly at the max there by Boston pizza. I worked there for probably like a year and a half. And that was a lot of fun too. And then, uh, downtown Mr. Liquor for a few months there, which one's Mr. Liquor. What's that close to Kiana. Oh yeah. That's a cool liquor store. Yeah, that's a good one. Was like the day they sound like a car or something they still have in there. There's a red truck in there. That's it? The red truck. Exactly.
Speaker 0 00:03:31 That's a Kiano college days. Those are two really good liquor stores to work at.
Speaker 2 00:03:36 They have a point system there too. So like you get, you know, free beer back or whatever, you know? Cool.
Speaker 0 00:03:41 It's uh, we had one of my buddies over here a few nights ago. Um, not for the show, just to hang out, to have a drink or two. Um, and he was saying, I didn't even, like, he looks at flyers for alcohol and he will go to certain liquors dependent.
Speaker 2 00:03:58 Yeah. I've never done that before. Really? No. Well, I just got that kind of money. I guess
Speaker 0 00:04:05 I'm all about convenience when it comes to you. Like you're so closest to you, that's it. So obviously I have a liquor store close to my house. I'll frequent that one more often than not, but if I'm in Dickens field or thick wood or Amazon or wherever, whatever's closer, there's usually one
Speaker 2 00:04:22 In one of those areas and I only really
Speaker 0 00:04:24 Drink one thing Jamison's so the price really doesn't fluctuate that much. Yeah. It varies very little. Yeah. Every once in a while I'll get like, I'll buy a, a two six, and it's like two, $3 off. I'm like, Hey, but for the amount of gas it would cost to drive to pick up, you know, I'm not, and I don't buy in bulk, I guess if I bought in bulk maybe. Yeah, exactly. That's cool. So let me hear your most interesting story from your liquor store career.
Speaker 2 00:04:54 My liquor store career. Um, honestly I guess it was like, uh, when we would get the orders in honestly like, uh, so the store up in Timberly the backroom was tiny. Like it was small, probably half the size of this room. Oh, wow. Yeah, it was tiny. And like, we were like the highest selling store at the time, just because, you know, we're on the corner story where everyone's passing by to go home after work or whatever, you know, so we were pretty busy, so they would always send us like more than we needed because they would just throw it on top of our order and we couldn't really do anything about it. So we had to accept it and sometimes we would get like 13 pallets of just everything's full of liquor and it would be going out like the front door pretty much. Well the back employee. Right, right, right, right. Yeah. Okay. I remember one time we, uh, we were getting an order in and we had so many pallets that we had to quickly like unload one of the pallets, just so we can get the last one in and then start unloading all of it. That's crazy for the dude was actually done delivering. Yeah. It was stressful. And then you have customers coming in and it's like, well, we gotta take care of them at the same time. But yeah, that was, that was pretty brutal.
Speaker 0 00:06:09 Even the liquor store job can be stressful sometimes. Oh yeah. Absolutely. Nice. Well, awesome points for everybody at home. It's not all glamour at the,
Speaker 2 00:06:16 Yeah, that's true. Some there, there definitely are some chill moments, but, uh, there are definitely, there's a lot of work to be done at the same time.
Speaker 0 00:06:23 It's just, there's certain jobs that I just feel like I'm all about like having a good conversation and talking to friendly people. Yeah. And so that's just the job that I'm like, you know what the majority of the people that are coming to the liquor store, like probably about to go party or in a good mood. They're happy. So
Speaker 2 00:06:39 Yeah. Yeah. They're usually in a good mood. Lots of people at the liquor store. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:06:42 You seem to come in with the cold, those weird with the cold. Yeah. Yeah. I guess the sniffles that's right. I have noticed that. So I haven't noticed that because it's just cold outside. It's warm. It's winter, come on.
Speaker 2 00:06:58 He seems to always have a winter.
Speaker 0 00:07:01 So now in regards to yourself, I know like you have this career that you're doing right now, but in your off time, you, uh, you like to mess around with music.
Speaker 2 00:07:10 Yeah. I like to DJ a lot. I do some of that here and there. I do have a SoundCloud. I don't really make music much, but I'm trying to learn and you know, to do that somehow and try to make it a hobby and some day hopefully big con job or something like that, you know?
Speaker 0 00:07:27 Cool. So now with the deejaying, I'm old school, when, uh, people, I remember when I used to have friends who DJ'ed, it was on the ones and twos. They had like the record and you had to, now there's tons of ways to DJ. Now you can use like records you can use. I don't even know what they're called the turntables without records. And there's also the DJs. Yeah. Decks. Thank you. Okay. There we go. And there's also DJs that like, just for using computers. Yeah, exactly. You can just use a laptop. Right. So how, what kind of DJ are you
Speaker 2 00:07:58 And JMI well, I just make a, you know, like 40 minute mix of just accomplishing of songs and stuff like that. And then I'll sometimes do a mashup of those two songs or whatever, just to give it like, you know, a new spice or new kicker.
Speaker 0 00:08:12 Cool. For like the new age mix tape. Yeah, exactly. Nice. Okay. What kind of music are we talking about here?
Speaker 2 00:08:19 Uh, EDM specifically dub stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:08:22 Okay. Now for an old man, like myself, Tanner has been explaining some of this music to me, uh, for the viewers at home and listeners explain what type of music this is because Tanner has gone down quite the rabbit hole with me and it's more than I ever imagined. It could be. Yeah. Um, honestly, it's
Speaker 2 00:08:42 Different. It's a lot different from anything you've ever heard because there's just so many things you can do with it, I suppose. But mainly it's just stuff that just noises that you like to throw your head back and forth to like break your neck, you know, and just, you know, have a good time too. It's just like, I don't know, a rush with an energy almost, you know?
Speaker 0 00:09:07 Hm. And there's tons of different genres like Tanner, what was that genre that you, uh, played for me that I really did? Like rhythm, rhythm rhythm. Yes. And so when he said it, I thought he was just trying to be cool in regards to make it sound like Jamaica. And I was like, Oh, you mean rhythm? He's like, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's how it's pronounced.
Speaker 2 00:09:25 Oh yeah. And that's actually a sub genre of dub stuff.
Speaker 0 00:09:28 Right. Yeah. Really cool. So for me that just, I grew up, my parents listened to soca and reggae and then I started listening to dance hall. Okay. So for me, what do you call it again? Rhythm. Thank you. Like I'm like, okay. This is just a departure of what I was listening to just a little bit quicker. Yeah, exactly. It's cool.
Speaker 2 00:09:51 Yeah. It's cool. There's definitely a lot of different things you can do with, and that's what I like about it. Just each song is different and unique in its own way. Right. Everyone's different, you know, one's going to have the same sort of making different noises. Right. He's going to make that same rhythm or
Speaker 0 00:10:07 That's it. So my question to you about this music is, um, what is your story in regards to how you got into this kind of music in particular?
Speaker 2 00:10:17 Oh, uh, honestly I just remember being in like middle-school and my friend, like showing me a song, you know, Scrillex and I'm like, Oh, you know, this is pretty good. I like this. It's different. You know, everyone, it's just more energetic and you know, different. And then I started slowly getting into it and finding like small labels and then, you know, watching them grown to become like big labels. I still listen to this and stuff. It's cool. Yeah. And a lot of artists too, it's crazy. I've met, uh, one artist that I idolized for. You know, he probably had like a thousand followers at the time. And then I saw him live one day, you know, that was sick. You know, he's playing this big show or whatever, and I got to meet him. So that's very cool watching him grow and stuff like that. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:11:02 Yeah. It's cool. When you find a genre of music, that's a little bit more underground and you can like, kind of say, Oh, this is mine. Yeah. It's not mainstream. This is it. Yeah. I know when I started listening to rap music, especially here in Fort McMurray, back in like the late eighties, early nineties, like it was impossible to find, Oh dude, it was, I've got stories on stories, on stories in regards to like how hard it was to find how it's not like today, where you can like go on the internet and find stuff. Exactly. Like I remember the first time I found, um, uh, what's the album, come on, junior mafia. I don't know if you know who the junior mafia is. It's uh, it's a band with, uh, biggie smalls in it. Biggie, smalls, little cam the locks. Anyways, when I found it, I was like, literally what they show on movies now, thumbing through records.
Speaker 0 00:11:52 Yeah. And then I picked up a cover that spoke to me. Yeah. And then I was like, Oh, this is cool cover. And then I turned it around and you're like, Oh man, biggie smalls. I'm like, Oh, I've heard of this new person. I was like, you know what? I'll buy it. Yeah. Why not? You know, $25 later, you buy a CD that you have no idea what it's going to sound like. I have to wait. You gotta wait till they get home. And so I listened to, it went to my buddy's house later on, threw it on the CD player. And then his older brother ran downstairs. He's like, Whoa, what is this? And we tell them like, Oh, it's junior mafia. He's like, Hey, I just read about them in a magazine. He goes upstairs and get the magazine. And so like, there was this whole thing in regards to like finding and you would, he might read about a band and be like, Oh, I might pick them up. Yeah. But yeah, it was so hard to find. And then all of a sudden, late nineties rap blew up, which I'm happy. I'm very happy about it, but then it's very popular today. It wasn't mine anymore, especially in Northern Alberta. So that, and I know Tanner, you've been kind of quiet, so let's throw it over to your segment. My man let's, uh, let's get some questions for the Mac city minute
Speaker 3 00:13:01 Question. Number one. What is one thing that helped you inspire your love of music?
Speaker 2 00:13:07 Honestly, just watching the artists grow as they, you know, progress through. And then I was like, Hey, you know, and they would always say, anyone can do it. All you really need is just a laptop and a program. And you can make music, you know, but you know what? I want to do that because I want to see what I can do and produce. And you know what I have to bring out.
Speaker 3 00:13:27 Question number two, what is one EDM song you enjoy that you think everyone should hear?
Speaker 2 00:13:33 Oh, that's a tough one. Um, Opal by sharks. That one's really good.
Speaker 3 00:13:40 Question. Number three. What is your favorite road trips snack?
Speaker 2 00:13:46 Uh, honestly, probably Kit-Kat. I would say that. And you know, vitamin water
Speaker 3 00:13:57 Question number four. What is the most addictive part of playing Battlecat?
Speaker 2 00:14:02 Oh my God. I guess getting the, you know, the Uber rares, you know, the special guys, that's definitely it seeing how cool they are.
Speaker 3 00:14:12 And uh, question number five. If you could work with any artist, who would that be?
Speaker 2 00:14:18 Oh my goodness. Probably barely alive. Those have been your five questions. Thank you, Danny
Speaker 0 00:14:28 Honored these questions today. Although greats, some of them went over my head. I didn't know what you're talking about. So I want to get in on the scoop. What is battle cats or can we talk about it? What is battle? Cat
Speaker 2 00:14:44 Battle. Cats is a mobile game for the foam where you collect these cats and there's different kinds of cats. Like really weird ones. There's like one, that's a giraffe. And then there's one, that's like a big Titan guy. And then there's like robot ones and a bunch of crazy ones that you can collect and there's, and you know, what you do is what you should the whole adopters to take over the world and lean on, fight other enemies and try to collect units too. So you can combat these enemies and stuff like that and learn more stuff in the game. There's definitely a lot of stuff, a lot, a lot of content in the game. Like I've been playing ever since the game released and I'm on my third run of the game because I had switched phones. I lost like progress and stuff like that, but this is definitely my best. Uh, let's go through that at the time. And uh, I'm still like nowhere close to being done.
Speaker 0 00:15:37 Okay. Wait a second. It does it, it stays on your actual phone. Like it doesn't go to your next phone when you get one.
Speaker 2 00:15:44 Well, you, there, there is a system where they give you like a code for it where you can transfer your data. But yeah, you would have to start all over again. If, uh, if
Speaker 0 00:15:54 You get a new phone, yes. You get a new phone. So you got people out, out and about playing battle cats on like an iPhone six who were just like, I got the iPhone 12, keeping this six just to play this game.
Speaker 2 00:16:03 No, you can transfer the data to the new phone. You would have to do it like through the game. Not like iTunes or something like that.
Speaker 3 00:16:11 Like if you broke your phone, like if you, those screen became unusable, you couldn't retrieve that code to put into your new phone. Your game's lost. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:16:20 Oh no. Yeah. That would be heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 00:16:24 I just barely got it from my, uh, from my last phone. Cause that one was like destroyed. I w I was luckily enough to get it on this new phone, so
Speaker 3 00:16:32 Yeah. And, uh, it, Colton got me onto this highly addictive game. So now I'm, I'm also onto the battle cat. So I thought it would be fun to bring it up and shout out the company. See if we can get free merge from them.
Speaker 0 00:16:45 Yeah. That'd be sweet cat. T-shirt my kid loves cats. So Hey, any kind of cat game tan or you live on the edge? Tanner's like myself in regards to we don't rock cell phone cases. Oh yeah. So Jan, are you living on the edge with this game, buddy? Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:17:00 Oh yeah. Oh yeah. It's a landscape game too. So you're holding on all four corners. Yeah. Well holding on for dear life. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 0 00:17:10 Now I want to talk a little bit, another question Tanner asked in regards to road trip snacks. Oh, is that like that's are you just having one KickUp? Are you crushing? Like multiple Kit-Kats on your trip? Oh,
Speaker 2 00:17:22 Probably I'll probably get other things, but that's definitely like what I would get first. You know, if I were to like, just go through a gas station real quick. Right. But I dunno, probably like chips and something like that. Okay.
Speaker 0 00:17:34 I'm going to build on this question because Tanner has told me he hasn't left Fort McMurray. And how many, like this is prior to COVID tenor. Doesn't leave town. What was the last time you left downtown?
Speaker 3 00:17:44 So left town was November, 2019. Yeah. And,
Speaker 2 00:17:50 Uh, left the country was, Oh God, uh, September, November, 2019.
Speaker 0 00:17:58 Yeah. So are you like this gentlemen who just doesn't get to travel often?
Speaker 2 00:18:03 Sure. I've been traveling a little bit recently. I actually came back from India.
Speaker 0 00:18:08 Nice. Why don't we go? Yeah, I know you guys are dramatically younger than me, but that's what I was telling Tanner. I was like, dude, I remember when I was your age, like Edmonton, like you have no money. Yeah. Let's be real. You got $0, but Hey. Yeah, there
Speaker 2 00:18:23 Is a dollar 37 in my
Speaker 0 00:18:26 Home. I have money. Edmonton was uh, okay. Yeah. Like, yeah, Tanner. I'm going to get travel, uh, Tanner traveling some more. That's my goal for 2021 that we're in right now. Yeah. We got to get on the road a little bit more. All right. Kind of how are we looking for time man? 18 minutes. Oh, crushing it. Okay. Well, before we cut you loose today, uh, I want to hear about your first memory of music. So we know how you got into the music you're listening to now, whatever that, wasn't the first thing you listened to. So what's your first musical memory that you can think of?
Speaker 2 00:19:11 Honestly, the youngest I can remember is, uh, growing up. I was probably like four. My mom was playing, uh, M and M's album Encore. Um, so that's like one of the end, like ACDC, you know, classic rock sort of genre right there. And it was, it was pretty funny. Very bad. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:19:31 Okay. That is a good one. Wow. See, like I I'm so old school. I was thinking like Michael Jackson or Alvin and the chipmunks is for me, but Oh wow. That's that's cool, man. You know, it's definitely different. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:19:47 I always hear like other people's like parents. Oh, they would play this growing up.
Speaker 0 00:19:52 Yeah. Little it's kind of weird. It's kind of late
Speaker 2 00:19:55 For me anyways. I grew up listening to that, but now looking back on it, it's like, yeah, I probably wasn't the best, but yeah.
Speaker 0 00:20:02 Oh, music's music man. And you know, whatever. Um, uh, the lyrics are a little bit more suggestive than others shares. Like I grew up, like I said, my parents, um, listened to reggae and soca music in particular and R and B. And in theory you think like, Oh, that's like pretty cool legit music, but when you start listening to some of those lyrics, namely suggested really? Oh yeah. Like we're not going to put my parents on blast, but some of that, uh, you should see some of the album covers for the reggae and or soca music in particular. I'll show it to you off, off camera. And they are supposed to vary. But is it a little Ray gay? Yeah. But all good. Right? It's just, it is what it is. So anyways, man, thank you very much for showing up today. I appreciate it.
Speaker 0 00:20:52 No worries. You dropped this guy off often enough and I know that you're hanging out, so I'm glad we got you on camera. It was fun. It was fun to be on here. There you go, man. And this is the first of many. Yeah, you're coming back again and again, anytime I see you in the house, we're putting you in Virginia. Cool man. Well thank you very much. Yeah, of course. Anytime sleep well. Fort McMurray, wood, Buffalo, and everybody else going to give him a plug. Oh, are we plugging? Can we plug? Oh shucks. Thank you. Yes. Let's let's hear the plug. Okay. So my SoundCloud is at loss sound and my Instagram is, I think that's a poacher. I don't know. I lost sound. Just what we'll do is we'll put that in the description below, but what's the SoundCloud. Cause you remember that one? Uh, it is lost sound. Okay. Sweet. Well, on that note, thank you for tuning in. My name is Lee Pierre. This is the Mac city morning show. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And we'll see you tomorrow. Pace.
Speaker 1 00:21:57 I just it's another Mac city morning show dog.
Speaker 0 00:22:15 Talk about quenching your ugly thirst.
